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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: A CPO could be issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I just want to talk in practical terms. I am pro-railway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We had it with Limerick Junction and the Limerick rail line. As far as I am concerned, there is a stand-off here. Everyone wants the railway, but more people want the greenways. The railway could be seen as a very cost-efficient way to get a greenway in place. However, it may have implications. It makes absolute sense to have greenways along existing rail lines and motorways. That is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is, however, a route where there was a rail line.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could I ask Mr. Mulligan a question, as a devil's advocate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is there any precedent of a disused existing rail line that has been temporarily converted to a greenway being reinstated as a rail line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has it happened elsewhere in the world?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will move on to a question for Mr. Lightfoot on the Ballybrophy line, which is of interest to me. In terms of upgrading the line, is it a double or single line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If it were to be upgraded, is there sufficient capacity for it to be a double line? Does Irish Rail own enough land to put a double line in there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much would what the rail partnership is seeking cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is what Mr. Lightfoot is seeking the use of the existing assets and existing line with increased frequency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could Mr. Lightfoot provide us with precisely the times he is looking at and we might feed that back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would this create much of an additional cost to the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it the one at Killonan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: My final question is for West on Track. Mr. Mulligan said it is far more expensive to provide a greenway beside the existing track. Would it reduce the cost if a greenway was to be provided now, using the existing track as a temporary measure, but not in such a way as to prevent the rail line being upgraded, and as soon as that were to happen the greenway would move from point A to point B?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will finally turn to West on Track. What is its basic objection to the proposal from Mr. Mulligan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is actually a proposal I put forward. We should be running greenways as well. How can that be done, technically? How much would it cost for everyone to coexist?